Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time, Afrikaner and English-speaking business groups spoke out. Their objection was simple: the disturbances were jeopardizing the economy. Jan Moolman, chairman of the Wool Board, called on the government to "amend their policies -or else." Peter Mosenthal, a textile manufacturer who is president of the Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce, declared: "The time has arrived when organized commerce must speak. The Bantu certainly have legitimate grievances...
...hundreds of miles away in coastal Natal that the lightning struck next. Out from the tough slums of Cato Manor, the big African location near the lovely port city of Durban, surged three phalanxes of angry blacks waving ax handles and carrying stones. Two groups were turned back by armored cars bristling with fast-firing Bren guns. But the third column headed for Central Prison shouting, "Give us our leaders!" before the police could stop it. It moved swiftly up handsome West Street, busiest of the shopping boulevards. Suddenly the police were firing, and within minutes three Africans were dead...
...interesting than in their own laboratories. To Lamont they flocked, as though following the Pied Piper. When they got to Lamont, they often found no money for their programs. Often, Lament's oceanographic ship, the elderly schooner Vema., sailed without enough money to carry her past her first port of call. As Vema headed into the Gulf Stream, Ewing's land-based aides would telephone frantically around the U.S. in search of money to buy fuel and stores at Cape Town or Montevideo...
...Because of the heat, P. & O. put VIPs in cabins on the relatively cool port side on the journey to the Orient, on the starboasd side on the way home. P. & O. officials soon shortened "port out, starboard home" to "posh." used the word to describe their luxury facilities...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran and his pretty bride of last December, Queen Farah, took in the sights of the Shatt-al-Arab river port of Khorramshahr from the deck of the Iranian ship Syrus. There was still no official confirmation of Farah's pregnancy (TIME, March 14), but the beribboned Shah was smiling with a secondary gleam...